Faraj Nur

Faraj Nur (5 October 1972-11 June 2004) was an Iraqi Saddam loyalist who was an anti-coalition military leader during the Iraq War.

Biography
Faraj Nur was born on 5 October 1972 in Baqubah, Iraq to a Sunni Muslim family. Nur served in the Iraqi Army from 1980 to 2003, having been drafted into the Iraqi 1st Army at the start of the Iran-Iraq War. Nur experienced heavy combat against Iran during the trench warfare of the 1980s war with them, and was also involved in the brutal quashing of Shi'ite and Kurdish rebellions in northern Iraq in the 1990s.

In 2003, Nur was discharged after the fall of Ba'athist Iraq under Saddam Hussein. A loyalist of the Saddam regime over Iraq, Faraj Nur became the leader of a militia in the "Sunni Triangle" in the center of Iraq, and he fought against the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Spain, Denmark, and Poland armed forces in the country. He was killed in Fallujah in 2004.